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University of Wollongong

2010

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Capitalizing A Future Unsustainable: Global Energy And The Fate Of Market Civilization, Timothy Dimuzio Jan 2010

Capitalizing A Future Unsustainable: Global Energy And The Fate Of Market Civilization, Timothy Dimuzio

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Liberal capitalist polities are being held up as the ultimate civilizational achievement precisely at a point in time when the energy intensive built environments & rampant & senseless consumerism of these societies are threatened by ecological devastation & the coming end of cheap & abundant fuel. Throughout the twentieth century this pattern of high energy consumption social reproduction was largely shaped by the global energy industry & the industries it spawned and/or allowed to flourish. Yet due to a number of foreseeable, if not entirely predictable, future obstacles & challenges, this blueprint of development seems doomed to failure. However, despite …


Meeting Global Goals At Regional Scales And In The High Seas, Caitlyn Toropova, Richard Kenchington, Marjo Vierros, Georgina Bustamante, Robert Glazer, Alessandra Vanzella-Khouri, Charlotte Karibuhoye, Lauren Wenzel, Kohei Hibino, M K. Tan, Imen Meliane, Kristina Gjerde, Christophe Lefebvre Jan 2010

Meeting Global Goals At Regional Scales And In The High Seas, Caitlyn Toropova, Richard Kenchington, Marjo Vierros, Georgina Bustamante, Robert Glazer, Alessandra Vanzella-Khouri, Charlotte Karibuhoye, Lauren Wenzel, Kohei Hibino, M K. Tan, Imen Meliane, Kristina Gjerde, Christophe Lefebvre

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

The establishment of MPAs is, in essence, a political process and to this end the great majority of MPAs have been established by national authorities, or by state authorities in some larger naitons. Of course oceanographic pattern and processes have no cognizance of political boundaries. Over the last decade, many regional organizations have been dedicating efforts to mprove larger-scale MPA planning and management.